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Participate in God's Restoration

When we accepted Jesus as our personal Lord and Saviour with all our heart, in truth and in action; we experienced a rebirth of our spirit. We, together with Christ, have overcome death which is the wages of sin and given a renewed life born of Spirit from God and promised of eternal life with Him. This metamorphosis drama of redemption is indeed an illustration of God's abundant grace and love to all humanity. Finally, we are now restored in our relationship with God that once had been broken by our sin. The faith of every believer, his cries, and his longings; moves God spirit and that what gives us the opportunity to live a renewed lives. Jesus, in one important event of his ministry on earth, awakened Lazarus who was buried for days then. You can follow this story in John 11:1-44. When Jesus called Lazarus to wake up, there was no participation from crowd occurred. However when Lazarus came out from his tomb, Jesus commanded them to "unwrap him and let him go." It was...

Defense, Offense, or Preaching

Every believer is entrusted with the Gospel of Jesus the moment he accepted Him as their Lord and Saviour through the Holy Spirit who draws us near to Him and gives His wisdom abundantly. Therefore, it is our responsibility to preach to everyone without any exceptions. However as we try to share Jesus' Good News, we either trying to be caught in emotional defensive and/or offensive conversation rather than victorious salvation of souls. We all fall in this invincible trap that almost unrecognizable and later becomes our habit already. A habit of defensive and offensive preaching of the Gospel is not the main characteristics of it. It may only lead to sending people away from hearing the Word of God. The good news of Jesus, indeed, exaggerates the image of God such as Kind, Love, Mercy, Grace, Just, and Eternity in heaven.  Paul summarizes it in Titus 3:4-7 says " 4 But "when the kindness of God our Saviour and his love for mankind appeared, 5 he saved us not by works of ...

Wisdom, a Sweet Delicacy

As we age, most of us are prohibiting ourselves from consuming too much of sweet delicacies as part of prevention to any future diseases like diabetes. However, we cannot avoid it completely as eating sweets is truly part of our lives since we were a child. In the same way in our walk of faith with Jesus, we all started as a child. In 1 Cor 13:11, " When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child... " When we grow in faith, we also grow in wisdom. Proverbs 24:14 said, " Likewise, know that wisdom is sweet to your soul; if you find it, you will have a future, and your hope will not be cut off ." Wisdom is a sweet that prolongs our lives, indeed, with great future and hope as we often find and consumed by it. Wisdom is the sweetest food of our soul, which is sourced from God Himself. Job 12:13 " With God are wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are Hi s. We have to seek God through Bible reading, Personal Devotion...

Branching from the True Vine

Today, the inauguration of FBGC Pointcook , is a celebration of the birth of a new bud (this church) branching from The True Vine (Jesus) who is under the care of our Gardener (God, The Father) --- John 15:1. Everyone enjoys the atmosphere of Spiritual Breakthrough as a product of this blossoming creation of God, the opening of our church here in Pointcook. We, our church, are a work in progress. We are not made of any non-living raw materials. We are God’s most loved living creations who have body, soul, and spirit. We are rational, social, and spiritual being. But like any full grown branches, we are starting from being a bud. Our main goal is to grow, glow, and go. Jesus reminded us in John 15:5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me – and I in him – bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.” In order for us to grow, we have to keep a solid connection to vine, to be fed by his living water, and hold us firmly even in the time of adv...